Ishihara took a deep breath and said angrily: "There is no need to say about the chariot, even if the four-type tank is installed, it is difficult to resist the power of the enemy's new type of tank, and the four-type tank has not yet been officially produced and equipped in the technical surname is already backward, so I will mainly develop a new type of tank immediately, just like the seventh large-scale improvement of the Zero War, we can only expect the Zero War to equip the army and naval aviation at the end of the year to help us regain the lost air supremacy." ”

Umezu Mijiro nodded helplessly and said: "The problem of air defense is already the most serious problem of our Kwantung Army, the troops can't move during the day, what kind of combat are you talking about?" For this reason, I loaded all 29 armored trains with anti-aircraft guns and transferred them to Jinzhou to assist in air defense, but the cost of ground air defense is very large, to the point that we can hardly imagine, especially those BF-109F fighters with silver fuselage painted blue tails, which are the fighters that Zhang Xuewu first began to install, and now all of them are equipped to Baotou Aviation Academy. The remaining four squadrons of the Kwantung Army Flying Division have already withdrawn across the Yalu River! It's really a shame for the Emperor Ben [***]! ”

Ishihara shook his head and said: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, the aviation unit and the navy are fighting for technical equipment, and the army can fight for will, but the air force and navy can't!" The will of the strong is not stronger than steel, and the surprise attack on Baotou is an example, while the two reinforced chariot wings of our army in Chaoyang were blocked by a few chariots of the opponent and suffered casualties! This is a huge gap in weapons! We cannot afford to be inferiorly bleeding by the loyal soldiers of the Empire because of the huge disparity in weapons. ”

Umezu Mijiro also sighed helplessly and said: "The abandoned small chariot that was captured before, the arsenals of Xinjing and Mukden actually told me that it could not be imitated? They can even build armored trains, and such a small thing can't? I have already sent people to transport it back to China, and I can only pin my hopes on the country, and in the past few days, there has been a kind of plane like a black streamlined small round pass on the Jinzhou front, and the officers and soldiers below call it the black death, the dive speed is extremely fast, and the firepower is unusually fierce, and five armored trains have been completely destroyed! Obviously, this is a combat aircraft with newly equipped equipment from Zhang Xuewu's department. ”

Ishihara pointed at the map with his hand and said: "It is said that it took off from the rising sun, this kind of aircraft seems to have a very short range, most of them are fixed or slow-moving targets such as chariots and fortresses that dive to attack the ground, and there are at least two 37 mm cannons and multiple machine guns on it, which pose a great threat to the ground forces, and its low-altitude speed is much faster than the rotation speed of the anti-aircraft gun direction machine?" I just can't understand how the military industry of the dignified empire is so unbearable compared to Rehe, which has been in the next three or five years? I really don't understand what those high-ranking officials above the imperial court are proud of? Combined Fleet? Even powerful battleships can't drive on land, and they have to build two super battleships that were originally canceled, and it is said that the names have been thought of, Yamato and Musashi! ”

Umezu Mijiro was also a little anxious and said: "The navy builds those giant ships that are completely useless, and the army is being chased and beaten, the army weapons and equipment of the Imperial Army are aimed at the current situation in Asia, not to deal with all the German or Soviet armies like Zhang Xuewu, the number of artillery and combat vehicles of the European army is far from being comparable to the imperial side, everyone is developing rapidly, and we are sitting in the well and watching the sky." ”

Ishihara shook his head and pointed to the Soviet border on the map and said: "These are not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that the Imperial Army has an innate psychological advantage over the Soviet Russian army, most of this advantage comes from the Russo-Russian War in 1905, as the winner of the war, the Imperial Army has always looked down on the Russian [***] team, and now it seems to look down on the current Soviet Red Army?" Especially when the General Staff Headquarters received the news that most of the outstanding and experienced commanders of the Red Army had been executed as a result of Stalin's purge, some generals in the Kwantung Army and many people in the Military Department and the General Staff Headquarters were even more dismissive of the Red Army? Even Zhang Xuewu, who was supplied with weapons by the Soviet Union, could not defeat him, so why did they think that we would be able to defeat the Soviets? This is simply bastard logic, we can only put constant pressure on the Soviets, and with the cooperation of the German side, the Soviets are forced to make concessions to us in the crisis of fighting on two fronts, and unilaterally provoke a war against the Soviet Union is extremely irresponsible, and it is a completely irrational and crazy act. ”

Umezu Mijiro took a deep breath and said: "This is nothing, the Tokyo base camp thinks that the Soviet army after the Great Purge is no longer worrying, and some guys who don't know that they have not even commanded an infantry brigade arrogantly claim that one division of the Imperial Army can deal with three divisions of the Soviet Army?" Therefore, before the battle against Rehe, the belligerent mood of the various units of the Kwantung Army was aroused, and I sent people to do a detailed investigation, and almost all the officers and men who participated in the battle were eager to fight with the Soviet army, but what was very terrible was that more than 90 percent of the officers did not know anything about the situation of the Soviet army, but they despised the opponent for no reason? The entire Kwantung Army was in a kind of pathological euphoria, and all the people were ready to move, arrogantly believing that the opportunity to vigorously show the strength of the Soviet Army had come, waiting for the lesson of the 10th War Zone, and after annihilating Zhang Xuewu's headquarters, they would prepare for the invasion of the Far East in Heilongjiang and other places! In fact, they did not understand that the war against Soviet Russia must be coordinated by the Germans, and that the Imperial Army could only strike a fatal blow at a critical moment, and that it was extremely unwise for the Reich to make a single choice against Soviet Russia. ”

Umezu Mijiro was talking with Ishihara when a lieutenant general of the Japanese army, who was dressed as burly as he was, walked in, barely a hundred and sixty centimeters taller, and according to later jokes, he was striding around the room with his head held high, and it was easy to slip under the bed if he was not careful, especially with a standard sanitary beard.

This person is Umezu Mijiro deliberately selected the commander of the First Front Army, Anan Yuji, Anan is a very mediocre guy, to put it bluntly, it is very good to manage, obedient to the extent that there is no distinction between right and wrong, basically there is never anything wrong, and in later generations it is also a leader who is willing to bring his own people, so the first thing Umezu Mijiro did when he took office was to transfer the original commander of the First Front Army to the commander of the Second Front Army, the commander of the Second Front Army, Ryosuke Isoya, and organized the Kwantung Army into two front armies and directly subordinate troops, Anami Yuji and Yamashita Fumimi were appointed as commanders of the front army.

Anan knows that he is not smart, so he has been messing with Suzuki's seniors when he was in the staff headquarters, and Anan also knows that he has never been a leader's material, so he does not participate in any faction.

This time, Anan Yuji also knew the purpose of Umezu Mijiro's transfer to him, because among all the generals of the army, he was the only one who had inspected the French Macedonian defense line on the spot and knew what a strong defense line was, but Anan did not think that it was appropriate to build a defense line in Jinzhou with his limited national strength, but even if it was something he did not agree with, as long as there was an order, Anan Weiji would be very happy to carry it out, and this kind of surname was extremely rare among the generals of the army.

Ishihara stretched out his hand and said, "Anan-kun, please be polite, Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief summoned you here to study how you can build a defensive belt with a depth of four hundred kilometers and five kilometers in two years or even less?" ”

If it were replaced by an ordinary general, the general would definitely tell Ishihara that you are crazy, and the defense line of 400 kilometers is still 5 kilometers deep? Completed in two years? Isn't that crazy what is it? However, Anan Weiji stood up and said: "Please rest assured that the commander-in-chief and the chief of staff have sufficient materials, I have sufficient methods, and if the materials are insufficient, I have insufficient plans, please provide me with enough labor, I want to inspect the lot first, and also ask the commander to coordinate comprehensively with the surveying and mapping, construction, engineering, and Manchurian railway departments." ”

Umezu Mijiro nodded with satisfaction, and smiled at Ishihara Wan'er: "Anan-kun, please don't be polite, you can contact the chief of staff directly if you have something, how much do you need in terms of manpower, I will order Manchukuo to levy as much as you want, there are more than 30 million people in Manchuria, and it is normal to transfer two or three million!" ”

At the door of the conference room of the headquarters, Anan Yuji, who was about to leave, suddenly said to Ishihara Waner: "Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief ordered the Kwantung Army to build fortifications in Jinzhou, and the captured laborers are naturally adult Chinese from Manchukuo, but if they are put back after the construction is completed, the fortifications will leak secrets, and in order to ensure safety, after these Chinese laborers finish repairing the fortifications, the laborers will be concentrated and eliminated in a complete way, in order not to divulge the secrets in the fortifications, After all, we have limited resources at our disposal, and our line of defense is not really airtight, and only then can our line of defense work. ”

Ishihara Wan'er was slightly stunned and said: "The cumulative investment of Manchurian laborers in two years must be at least more than 500,000 or 600,000 people, these people are all young and middle-aged, if all of them are slaughtered, I am afraid that the side effects will be too great?" This is extremely detrimental to the stability of Manchuria? Is there any other way? ”

Anan Wei hesitated for a moment and said: "Then we will give the people of China a little sweetness first, promise to pay wages after two years, and give some every month three months in advance, so that these laborers will also have a head to work, willing to work hard, and can control the number of people at about 200,000, after all, two years is too short, and all the divisions and regiments stationed in the garrison will also be transferred to participate in the construction in a third of the rotation, such a high-intensity labor will definitely die in large numbers, and in the end we need to solve only half of the people, these people can be solved in two or three months before completion, You need to process 30,000 or 40,000 people every month! Not much pressure! ”

(To be continued)